web02.fireside.fm Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:21:30 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Neoconservatism” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/neoconservatism Tue, 25 May 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust en-us episodic A podcast about political, cultural, and psychological exhaustion and why nothing feels possible. Emmet Penney Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust yes politics, culture, history, philosophy Emmet Penney emmetmpenney@gmail.com Episode 40: "We all saw that idea come home": The Imperial Vampire Castle and Its Fixed Ideas https://exhaust.fireside.fm/40 b421a6f0-bb1e-42f1-9819-ca47803d6136 Tue, 25 May 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. 1:06:04 yes Emmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. We talk about the major cultural resonances between the post-Trump era and the aftermath of 9/11, how the Greater War in the Middle East disabused us of optimism, why in the next few years there will be American Sniper but about an activist, and more! The essays: Fixed Opinions (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/01/16/fixed-opinions-or-the-hinge-of-history/?lp_txn_id=1250122) by Joan Didion Exiting the Vampire's Castle (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/) by Mark Fisher Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counterinsurgency (http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/1/777777190136/) by Mahmood and Hirschkind Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep40bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "Good Bass Lines, Really Good Bass Lines (https://mans.bandcamp.com/track/good-bass-lines-really-good-bass-lines)" by MANS. Subscribe to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) for 2 exclusive episodes a month! Episode Image (https://unsplash.com/photos/7VHsb9sGBKs). iraq war, joan didion, neoconservatism, 911, woke, cancel culture, cia, afghanistan, mark fisher, mujahideen, cold war, empire, liberalism Emmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. We talk about the major cultural resonances between the post-Trump era and the aftermath of 9/11, how the Greater War in the Middle East disabused us of optimism, why in the next few years there will be American Sniper but about an activist, and more!

The essays:

Fixed Opinions by Joan Didion
Exiting the Vampire's Castle by Mark Fisher
Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counterinsurgency by Mahmood and Hirschkind

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Good Bass Lines, Really Good Bass Lines" by MANS.

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Episode Image.

]]> Emmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. We talk about the major cultural resonances between the post-Trump era and the aftermath of 9/11, how the Greater War in the Middle East disabused us of optimism, why in the next few years there will be American Sniper but about an activist, and more!

The essays:

Fixed Opinions by Joan Didion
Exiting the Vampire's Castle by Mark Fisher
Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counterinsurgency by Mahmood and Hirschkind

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Good Bass Lines, Really Good Bass Lines" by MANS.

Subscribe to our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month!

Episode Image.

]]> Episode 34: Long Live the New Flesh!: Getting Videodromed with Geoff Shullenberger https://exhaust.fireside.fm/34 8662e58e-2405-4783-a930-ca3b74701e62 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and Geoff Shullenberger talk about a mutual favorite film: Cronenberg's Videodrome. They talk about how it presaged our fractured digital lives and the inscrutable, parapolitical world we inhabit. 1:29:11 yes Emmet and Geoff Shullenberger talk about a mutual favorite film: Cronenberg's Videodrome. They talk about how it pre-empted our fractured digital lives and the inscrutable, parapolitical world we inhabit. Join our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) for 2 extra episodes a month! Eratta: Emmet states that Videodrome came out in 1985, but it did not. It came out in 1983. Bibliography. (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep34bib) Twitter. (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast) Closing Song: "La Flamme dell' Est (Fabio Brienza Remix)" by Lamniformes (https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/album/you-cant-do-this-alone) Special Guest: Geoff Shullenberger . parapolitics, peter thiel, viderodrome, david cronenberg, paranoia, marshall mcluhan, cold war, 1980s, media theory, body horror, leo strauss, neoconservatism, videodrome Emmet and Geoff Shullenberger talk about a mutual favorite film: Cronenberg's Videodrome. They talk about how it pre-empted our fractured digital lives and the inscrutable, parapolitical world we inhabit.

Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes a month!

Eratta: Emmet states that Videodrome came out in 1985, but it did not. It came out in 1983.

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "La Flamme dell' Est (Fabio Brienza Remix)" by Lamniformes

Special Guest: Geoff Shullenberger .

]]> Emmet and Geoff Shullenberger talk about a mutual favorite film: Cronenberg's Videodrome. They talk about how it pre-empted our fractured digital lives and the inscrutable, parapolitical world we inhabit.

Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes a month!

Eratta: Emmet states that Videodrome came out in 1985, but it did not. It came out in 1983.

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "La Flamme dell' Est (Fabio Brienza Remix)" by Lamniformes

Special Guest: Geoff Shullenberger .

]]> Episode 10: Putting the Neocon in Neoconfuscianism: Conservative Responses to East Asia's Rise ft. Jennifer Miller https://exhaust.fireside.fm/10 a381fefc-8c99-4fde-be56-a356a1f6f543 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Historian Jennifer Miller joins Emmet and John to talk about two papers she's written on conservative responses to the rise of East Asia in the latter part of the Cold War. 1:09:58 yes Historian Jennifer Miller (https://twitter.com/historianjennie) joins us to talk about two papers she's written on conservative responses to the rise of East Asia in the latter part of the Cold War. We get into the nitty gritty about international reactionary currents, ahistory in neoconservative thought, overlaps between neocons and Christopher Lasch, and a whole lot else! We were delighted to have her and hope to do so again. The two papers we discuss: “Let’s Not be Laughed at Anymore: Donald Trump and Japan from the 1980s to the Present (https://brill.com/view/journals/jaer/25/2/article-p138_138.xml)” "Neoconservatives and Neo-Confucians: East Asian Growth and the Celebration of Tradition (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/neoconservatives-and-neoconfucians-east-asian-growth-and-the-celebration-of-tradition/E252CF331F5BF8DC4179E4F481EA4E0C)" Check out Jennifer's book: Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976344). Bibliography here. (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/eptenbib) Remember: Sci-Hub is your friend. Special Guest: Jennifer Miller. east asia, conservative, japan, south korea, history, foreign relations, protestantism, american history Historian Jennifer Miller joins us to talk about two papers she's written on conservative responses to the rise of East Asia in the latter part of the Cold War. We get into the nitty gritty about international reactionary currents, ahistory in neoconservative thought, overlaps between neocons and Christopher Lasch, and a whole lot else! We were delighted to have her and hope to do so again.

The two papers we discuss:

“Let’s Not be Laughed at Anymore: Donald Trump and Japan from the 1980s to the Present”

"Neoconservatives and Neo-Confucians: East Asian Growth and the Celebration of Tradition"

Check out Jennifer's book: Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan.

Bibliography here.

Remember: Sci-Hub is your friend.

Special Guest: Jennifer Miller.

]]> Historian Jennifer Miller joins us to talk about two papers she's written on conservative responses to the rise of East Asia in the latter part of the Cold War. We get into the nitty gritty about international reactionary currents, ahistory in neoconservative thought, overlaps between neocons and Christopher Lasch, and a whole lot else! We were delighted to have her and hope to do so again.

The two papers we discuss:

“Let’s Not be Laughed at Anymore: Donald Trump and Japan from the 1980s to the Present”

"Neoconservatives and Neo-Confucians: East Asian Growth and the Celebration of Tradition"

Check out Jennifer's book: Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan.

Bibliography here.

Remember: Sci-Hub is your friend.

Special Guest: Jennifer Miller.

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